[okfn-discuss] Open Data Developments in Asia

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-09-27

Summary:

[Forwarded from the OKFN Discussion List] "The Open Knowledge Conference this year attracted delegates from 68 countries, indicating that Open Data is indeed becoming a global movement around the world.   How is Open Data adopted in Asia, the largest continent of this planet where 60 per cent of the world population live?   Asia has some of the most advanced internet economies as well as some of the least developed countries with hardly any access to information or information infrastructure, neither analogue nor digital.   At the OKCon, 26 participants from 11 Asian countries were present, including Nepal, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Russia. In this blog, I focus on selected North and South East Asian countries: New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, simply because getting reliable data from all 49 Asian countries would require much more research.     The selected countries are all included in the Worldbank Knowledge Economy Index (KEI) with vastly different economic rankings.  New Zealand achieved the highest Knowledge Economy score, closely followed by Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan, whereas Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar score lowest in all categories (ICT, education, economic incentive and institutional regime, innovation). Other key indicators relevant for Open Data development are the Corruption Perception Index (Transparency International), the World Internet Statistics and the Democracy Index (EIU) as a measure for general governance and functioning of government ..."

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oa.new oa.psi oa.comment oa.events oa.asia oa.okfn oa.okcon oa.government oa.data

Date tagged:

09/27/2013, 10:31

Date published:

09/27/2013, 06:31